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 This is actually three separate C++11/C++14 libraries:
 
 1.  `"date.h"` is a header-only library which builds upon `<chrono>`.  It adds some new `duration` types, and new `time_point` types.  It also adds "field" types such as `year_month_day` which is a struct `{year, month, day}`.  And it provides convenient means to convert between the "field" types and the `time_point` types.  See http://howardhinnant.github.io/date/date.html for more details.